giant star

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Recent Examples of giant star All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025 In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star. Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025 The most violent of these deaths are associated with truly giant stars and are known as supernovas—explosions that sometimes outshine entire galaxies. Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025 Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other. Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for giant star
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Noun
  • Instead, Lohan put her right hand in the shot, showing off a bubble bath pink natural nail polish as well as a small red star tattoo.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Big, hot, blue stars live shorter lives, while tiny, cool, red stars live for much longer.
    Stephen DiKerby, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • What is a neutron star, or pulsar?
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Pulsar 2849 intrigued me with its neutron star premise.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • But when a binary star about to go supernova threatens the planet Adjumir, Maw’s beloved Gebre entrusts him with an artifact and the order to leave him behind.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In another imaging campaign, API, assisted by AMIGO, was able to produce detailed images of a black hole jet, the volcanic surface of Jupiter's moon Io, and stellar winds emanating from a distant variable star.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • That is a mystery in itself, as scientists can't explain how a white dwarf with no surrounding disk of matter can maintain an outflow for such a prolonged period of time.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Players getting paid can also affect locker room chemistry and become another variable to be managed.
    Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the number will stay low but variable.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The background star involved in the event was identified as a red giant, helping to refine the measurements.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Jan. 2026
  • This research and the observations of dust formation and outflows from a red giant could help better understand how AGB stars lose mass, one of the longest-standing unresolved problems in stellar astrophysics.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025

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